Posts tagged with Andy Holt

The SNP are making a huge fuss over Alistair Carmichael's lie about the leaking of a conversation between Nicola Sturgeon and the French ambassador in which she is alleged to have expressed her preference for the return of David Cameron to Downing Street.
There are three reasons for this behaviour.... Read more...

I see that the local branch of the Scottish National Party is warning of the danger to Shetland's fishing industry posed by the Brexit negotiations.
Iain Malcomson is correct; there can be no guarantees where settlements with the European Union are concerned.
However, we can be absolutely sure... Read more...

In the midst of the present crisis in the steel industry the silence from our masters and their mistress in Edinburgh is deafening.
Can this have anything to do with the fact that the new Forth road bridge is being constructed almost entirely of cheap, inferior-quality Chinese steel?
Of co... Read more...

When is the Sheriff Court in Lerwick going to take seriously a more measured approach to the problem of violence against women?
There have been a number of cases in recent years where the punishment has appeared derisory taking into account the level of violence involved, fear engendered in the v... Read more...

It is a comfort to know that Ian Tinkler does not despise any of the trustees of Shetland Charitable Trust (Readers' Views, 2nd October).
You would not know this from his endless letters, routinely casting aspersions on our character, competence and motives.
Yet again, he asks questions that w... Read more...